posted :
September 29, 2005 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
Hi all, I am Graeme just completing my Rescue and looking for people to dive with, age or experience is not a problem. Blackpool is my main area, I am in Newcastle about 2 time a month over weekends. So if you fancy teaming up just let me know.

lee

posted :
October 18, 2005 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
hi ditch
are you still looking for buddies
im busy trying to get my divemaster done and am well short of dives
the weather is shit on the coast at the mo so i was gonna try capernray
i'm 28 with just under 30 dives, my last dive was just last week off the coast
i have all my own kit and a car
email me on leefy2snow@yahoo.co.uk if you fancy hooking up

alib

posted :
June 5, 2006 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
hi ...i live in newcastle and am recently qualified and im looking for dive buddies..... have own kit n car.... im just waiting for my mtm suit in the next 2 wks and am ready to go.... contact me if u fany it...alisterbate@hotmail.com....cheers............happy diving.............

seanrand

posted :
November 11, 2008 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
im a newly qualified and had experience up in scotland diving also. if anyone is still looking for a buddy contact me seanrand57@hotmail.com
cheers
sean

pburch

posted :
November 17, 2008 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
Does anyone else out there find Lee's response deeply worrying or is it just me?

geoff b

posted :
November 18, 2008 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
mr burch i can understand what your getting at if it wasn't for me stepping back and taking a look at what was happening then i would have been fast tracking through all the courses padi had to offer but realised the only way to become a better diver was to get in as much diving as possible whether it be at stoney or elsewhere.
i've only been diving since january and notched up 150 dives quarries and coast so now i feel confident in my diving capabilities. but during my time with my club i've seen divers railroading through courses sometimes from openwater to instructor and never leaving the six meter shelf at stoney. to me seems ridiculous as how can instructors pass on confidence and experiece in the water when they have got none themselves?.
having done my rescue diver i found i learned more through my instructor because of his experience rather than the padi course.
i can also understand why some divers want to go through to instructor if it means going abroad to teach but please back up your qualification with with diving experience.
i've learned more from diving with experienced divers than i would going on any course !!!.
geoff

razor

posted :
November 18, 2008 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
well said geoff
you now talking sense

i no instructors that have never left a quarry {stoney} and i to think this is wrong

experience more dives the better you will be

just mix them up a bit as diving same place over and over will not get you ready

otherwise u will end up like a zoo animal just going round in same circles stuck in same cage

pburch

posted :
November 18, 2008 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
Geoff. You are absolutley right about have to take a step back and look at what;s going on. It's thinking about all those things that you haven't been taught that really helps. If you fancy a dive at Stoney some time let me know, although I hate to admit it (because it will give Razor some more ammo) but I think the NDAC has now overtaken it.

geoff b

posted :
November 18, 2008 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
mr burch, we'll have to arrange a dive or two at ndac much prefer it myself than stoney.
on holiday in sharm from next friday, back second week in december so if you let me know your email we'll arrange some diving if you want when i get back.
ps:- do you think razor might come along, now we've got a new understanding of one another?

pburch

posted :
November 19, 2008 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
Geoff. My e-mail is diving@paul-burch.com. Are you sure you will be able to cope with the excitement of Sharm after all those Stoney dives? Won't you get withdrwawl symptoms from the Stanegarth ;-). Enjoy yourself anyway.

razor

posted :
November 19, 2008 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
i think geoff will be ok his heart is in right place

enjoy sharm geoff and no swimming in stoney circles

and guess what stoney will still be the same when you get back no change there then

have good time and enjoy some real diving in red sea

geoff b

posted :
November 20, 2008 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
thanks for the words of encouragement razor just what i needed when i'm going to venture out of my comfort zone.
do you think i'll be ok in that thing called "the sea"
just hope when i get back someone will be there to show me "the attractions" at stoney.
lots of love
geoff
ps:- i think your hearts in the right place too razor

razor

posted :
November 20, 2008 Post subject: Blackpool or Newcastle areas
geoff if you still need someone to show "the attractions" at stoney. after all the dives you have done in there i'd give up
ps enjoy the salt water its real diving and just think you don't need to go in a circle now